Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...King announces himself on the title-page as a member of Harvard College; he would have done better to have kept that fact to himself. He evidently had some compunctions about proclaiming it in this public manner, for he puts it in brackets. As a matter of taste it would have been better to have left out this statement. It is entirely irrelevant, to say the least...
...well-known fact that the apparatus in our old gymnasium is not what it should be, not what we should expect to find in a well-regulated gymnasium, and the idea of again making use of these old-fashioned fixings is absurd. We want better, and if better is not given us we may as well continue to use our old gymnasium with all its inconveniences...
There, that is much better...
...regard to the new method of examination the President say; that the new method is in all respects better than the old, and the latter will not be maintained after...
Cambridge University, November 20. - H. J. L. Evans, 5 yards start, won the half-mile handicap in 2 min. 1/5 sec., which would be better than 2 min. 1 sec. for the full distance. W. H. Churchill, scratch, won the strangers' quarter-mile handicap...